2011 February

A graph of the number of tweets per day. Pretty much every web usage stat looks like this.

Today we continue our series on future trends in web development and usage by focusing on how we organize, search, and share information online.

One trend is clear: we are putting information on the web at an increasingly faster rate:

• Twitter reports tweets per day went from under 50 million a day in 2010 to over 110 million a day now.
• At the end of 2009, Facebook had 350 million users. At the end of 2010, there were over 600 million.

Want more numbers? Check out 2009 and 2010 stats from Pingdom’s “Internet in Numbers” series. (more…)

We're gazing into the future to identify new trends in web design

We’ve been extremely busy around the office lately. We launched our new site and are gearing up to celebrate 10 years in business. Looking at our old site and the past 10 years got us thinking: what will the future be like? As a marketing and digital design agency it is our job to stay current. We subscribe to industry publications. We attend conferences and seminars. Some of us are even pursuing advanced degrees. All of these activities provide insights that help answer the important question: what’s next in the world of web design? (more…)